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The Bread Winner Ropes Crossing’s very own The Bradley Street Baker have just won eight awards at the Baking Association Australia (BAA) Newcastle Competition and the Baking Association Australia (BAA) National Artisan Baking Competition.

The popular local artisan bakery took out 1st Place Open Flavoured Dough Class (Gunpowder Cracked Pepper and Parmesan), 1st Place White Sour Dough Class (Sour Red Fox Sour Dough) and Arthur Denison Award for Champion Loaf of the Show at the Baking Association Australia (BAA) Newcastle Competition. At the Baking Association Australia (BAA) National Artisan Baking Competition, held in conjunction with the annual baking industry trade show, they won 1st Place Specialty Rye Sour Dough Class (Rye Smile), 1st Place White Sour Dough Class (Sour Red Fox Sour Dough), 1st Place Sour Dough Baguette Class (Choix De Coco French Baguette), Champion Sour Dough Loaf of the Show and Champion Product of the Show.

They were open competitions available for any bakery nationwide to enter, however large (franchises, supermarkets, or independents).

“It felt great to win, knowing that entries are all judged anonymously, and against any/all products that were entered. It was also not only fantastic (and unexpected) to win the categories we entered, but to win the champion products in both competitions, and to essentially take out the entire show recently was a very humbling experience” said Anthony Adam of The Bradley Street Baker.

“The best part was we made no alterations to our products to enter. We took the entries from our daily production the very same as our customers receive!” he added.

They have also entered some of their favourites into the Sydney Royal Fine Food Competition, which will be judged in August.

“The awards mean a lot, as it’s important to us as an online business that our customers (and potential customers) can see and trust that our products are the best. That could otherwise prove difficult without having the ability to see/smell physical product on a shelf. It also serves as a bit of a benchmark for us to maintain only the highest quality for our customers” explained Anthony.

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The local community comes alive this month with the Ropes Crossing Carnival returning.

The popular family event will take place on Saturday 17th July from 11:00am to 7:30pm at Ropes Crossing Oval. It is brought to you by Ropes Crossing Strikers FC. There will be hot food, rides, stage performances from local dance schools and singers, a band, and a reptile show. The grand finale will be fireworks at 7:30pm, which is sure to be a favourite!

Ride passes can be purchased for the Carnival. Pre-purchase Unlimited Ride Passes will be $30 and can be bought from the ground on Saturday/Sunday or anytime during soccer sessions on weekdays at Ropes Crossing Oval (Guild Place) prior to the event. On the day of the Carnival, Unlimited Ride Passes will be $35. Individual Ride Passes are also available and will be $5. There will be over 12 rides including dodgem cars, giant swinging chairs and the sizzler.

“We are looking forward to bringing the community joy back to Ropes Crossing. Last year’s event had to be cancelled due to COVID and we have planned a bigger and better event this year” said Anthony Xerri of Ropes Crossing Strikers FC. The Carnival will be a COVID-Safe event and they cannot have more than 5,000 attendees at one time. In case of weather, the postponement date will be Saturday 24th July.

It promises to be a great day out for the family, so don’t miss out!

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Local Girl Guides Inspire Ropes Crossing Girl Guides District may have only formed less than a year ago, but they are already proving to be a welcome addition to the community.

They formed in September 2020, after an uncertain year during COVID. The group had 16 girls attend the very first Junior Guides Come and Try Night in September 2020, and since then the Unit has grown to 19 young girls between the ages of 7 - 9.

The Ropes Crossing Guides Unit, for girls aged 10-13, opened in December 2020 and has grown to include 10 members. The District is supported by a group of dedicated volunteers, made up of their Leaders Hayley Boyd, Tiffany Galea and Caitlin Ribolli, Learning Partner Chris Glasheen, and District Manager Rhonda Alexander. They also have great support from the parents of their Girl Guides who have helped fundraise and support the future of the District.

Some of the activities that the group have participated in include: • Clean Up Australia Day: The Guides joined Ropes Crossing Neighbourhood Watch to help clean up Ropes Crossing and care for our environment • ANZAC Day: They made their own ANZAC wreaths and laid them in their own small ceremony at the St Marys War Memorial • Australian National Servicemen’s Association Penrith Sub Branch: As a result of their ANZAC Day activities, the Ropes Crossing District Girl Guides were invited to unveil a bench dedicated to the Australian National Servicemen’s Association Penrith Sub Branch alongside the Mayor of Penrith • First District Camp: The June long weekend saw the very first District Camp at the Girl Guides campsite Camp Austral. The girls completed many fun activities under the theme of “Girl Guides Go Back in Time” The Guides also have fun every week at their regular meetings, making new friends, learning new skills, and building their confidence and resilience in a safe and enjoyable environment.

Both the Junior Guides and Guides Units meet on Tuesday evenings at the Ropes Crossing Community Hub. The Junior Guides (Girls 7 - 9) meet from 6pm to 7.30pm and the Guides (Girls 10 - 13) meet from 6pm to 8pm.

They have many volunteer opportunities available to help support the growth of the Ropes Crossing Girl Guides District.

There are leadership opportunities available for any woman who wants to build on their leadership skills, mentor young girls and women, and make a difference in their community.

You can visit them at the Ropes Crossing Community Hub on Tuesday evenings, or visit their Facebook page - Ropes Crossing District Girl Guides. You can also visit the Girl Guides NSW, ACT & NT website or call 1300 447548 to find out more about Girl Guides. r

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Article Written + Submitted by: Monica Purcell | Family Facilitator Nepean Community & Neighbourhood Services W: www.nepeancommunity.org.au E: info@nepeancommunity.org.au

“Time In Versus Time Out”

Most of us would have heard of giving kids a ‘time out’ when they’ve done something wrong. You may have experienced sitting alone as a child, in some boring and bare corner of the room, waiting for a parent or teacher to allow you back. ‘Time out’ has been a staple of the child behaviour management tool kit for decades, but many are now asking- is there a better way?

The logic behind ‘time out’ is that most kids hate it, so they will behave ‘well’ in order to avoid it. However, what we now know from decades of research into child development, is kids don’t usually set out to be ‘bad’.

Often, kids do bad things when they are stressed out. This may be because they are tired or hungry, or they can’t solve an important problem. Recent advances in brain imaging have shown us that a spike in stress reduces functioning in key areas of the brain involved in thinking ahead and considering consequences. These same areas of the brain are already under development in children and teens. So, add a little too much stress, and you have a recipe for disaster!

Kids are hard-wired to connect with the important big people in their life so they can survive until they are old enough to take care of themselves. When kids see us paying attention to them, and giving them care, they know they are safe. Safety creates calm, and calm brains can solve problems without hurting anyone or breaking anything.

‘Time in’ is a strategy that uses your relationship with your child to help them settle and think through the situation. What it looks like is taking your child somewhere safe, sitting down and chatting about what went wrong. It’s not about free passes for bad behaviour. It’s about understanding why the behaviour happened, and what can be learned- how can they manage this problem better in the future? It can also involve discussing ways to right the wrong, such as apologising to a hurt sibling or replacing something that was broken. r

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Three Men Charged After Pursuit With Stolen Vehicle Three men have been charged following a police pursuit with a stolen vehicle in Sydney’s west last month.

Just before 9am (Monday 14 June 2021), officers attached to Nepean Police Area Command observed a black Toyota Camry – reported as stolen – travelling on The Northern Road, Jordan Springs.

Police attempted to stop the Toyota; however, it failed to stop, and a pursuit was initiated.

The pursuit was terminated shortly after due to safety concerns and the Toyota continued to travel south at high speed, despite one of the front wheels falling off.

At the intersection of Copeland and King streets, Kingswood, the vehicle hit a parked car and the three occupants fled on foot.

Following a search involving local police, assisted by PolAir and the Dog Unit, the driver, a 27-year-old man, and two passengers – aged 21 and 23 – were arrested after a short foot pursuit.

The driver was taken to Nepean Hospital with minor injuries while the two passengers were taken to Penrith Police Station.

The 27-year-old Oxley Park man was later released from hospital and taken to Penrith Police Station where he was charged with 13 offences including; two counts of dishonestly obtain property by deception, aggravated break and enter dwelling in company, destroy property in company use fire and drive conveyance without consent of owner, police pursuit-not stop-drive at speed, drive recklessly/furiously or speed/manner dangerous, motor vehicle exceed speed more than 45km/h, drive motor vehicle during disqualification period, use motor vehicle displaying misleading numberplate, negligent driving (no death or grievous bodily harm) and not give particulars to owner of damaged property.

The 21-year-old Kingswood man and 23-year-old Doonside man were both charged with aggravated break and enter dwelling in company, destroy property in company use fire and be carried in conveyance without consent of owner.

Police will allege the men were involved in a robbery at a supermarket in Cambridge Gardens and a break and enter at a home on Bellatrix Street, Cranebrook, prior to the pursuit.

They have all been refused bail and appeared at Penrith Local Court (Tuesday 15 June 2021).

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The NSW Government is increasing its historic investment in new and upgraded schools, delivering funding for 44 new and upgraded school projects announced as part of the 2021/22 Budget.

This includes funding for 30 projects that were prioritised for planning and 14 new works in areas of high need.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the school building pipeline has already invested billions of dollars into new and upgraded schools, with 50 delivered last year alone.

“This budget continues our historic school infrastructure investment with an additional $2.1 billion spend to deliver new and upgraded schools across NSW,” Ms Berejiklian said.

“Since 2019, this government has delivered more than 100 new and upgraded schools – it’s an important achievement, but we are not done.”

The 2021/22 Budget will include funding to deliver: • A new primary school in Gregory Hills • A new primary school at Westmead • The new selective high school in Southwest Sydney • The relocation of Wee Waa High School • A new high school in Marsden Park • Jordan Springs Public School – Stage 2 Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said the government is providing for families across the state and in growth areas.

“Communities have never seen investment in education like this before, including in high growth areas. Western Sydney alone is seeing an additional $2 billion investment in new works,” Mr Perrottet said.

Minister for Education Sarah Mitchell said that the investment in schools is an investment in the future of NSW. “This budget shows yet again that we are a government that delivers on its commitments. We plan for schools – and then, once planning is complete, we fund them for construction,” Ms Mitchell said.

“This historic program began in 2017 and since then, we have spent more than $7 billion on new and upgraded schools. The additional funds in this Budget grow the pipeline to $7.9 billion worth of investment in new and upgraded schools over the next four years, making this a $15 billion school building program.

“Across NSW, thousands and thousands of students are benefitting from new and upgraded schools, and this will continue under this government.”

These initiatives will be announced as part of the 2021/22 Budget with the NSW Government continuing its program to deliver 215 new and upgraded schools representing an injection of $7.9 billion into the NSW economy over the next four years.

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Article Written + Submitted by: Andreas Klein Nutritionist + Remedial Therapist from Beautiful Health + Wellness P: 0418 166 269

Chronic Shoulder Pain – Cured By What You Eat? Some people come to the clinic with what seems like a simple shoulder problem that should respond well to physical therapy, but then doesn’t. Ongoing shoulder pain may not be driven only by the original injury and on such occasions gut-derived autoimmune/inflammatory processes should be considered as a possible contributor.

Recently a patient presented with two sore shoulders, brought on by workers comp pre-return to work shoulderstrength testing. Ultrasounds showed evidence of bursitis, slight shoulder tendons wear and tear, pain in the front of both shoulders; extremely limited range of motion - especially of the left.

The patient received physical therapy for several weeks with minimal improvement. She was advised that the inflammatory processes in her shoulders may be being exacerbated by components in her diet. Initially, not keen to make suggested dietary changes and within one week, achieved almost full range of motion.

Why might dietary change help sometimes? The patient history showed a previous but unrelated work injury requiring years of pain medication. Long term intake of such medications

may lead to compromised integrity (leakiness) of the intestinal lining. This allows immune stimulating proteins from foods such as grains and milk (even whole microbes) to leak across to where immune cells reside. Immune cells see such foreign proteins and microbes as signs of danger and become activated. They enter the blood stream, migrate to other sites of injury, and produce large amounts of inflammatory mediators that augment local inflammation increasing pain at those sites.

For this client, her strenuous shoulder-strength tests likely caused some local injury. Once such local shoulder inflammation began, it attracted circulating and activated gut-derived immune cells. These cells then exacerbated the local shoulder inflammation and prevented the shoulder tissues from moving from the inflammatory phase into the repair and resolution phase of the healing process.

In this case, dietary change likely reduced exposure of gut immune cells to immune stimulating proteins, resulting in a relatively quick reduction in shoulder pain. So, if you have unresolved shoulder (or neck) pain, among other causes, you may want to consider the impact of elements in your diet.

FAITH – ST DAVIDS CHURCH LLANDILO Article Written + Submitted by: Rev John Hebblewhite A: Lot 257A Seventh Ave, Llandilo P: 4736 3592 Service Times: 10am each Sunday, with additional services held: 2pm on the Third Sunday + 8am on the Fourth Sunday

Two questions have exercised the thinking of many people down through the ages. The attempted answers have produced a wide variety in lifestyle governed by religious and philosophical development. One question is what is the meaning of life? The other, what is the meaning of death?

To enjoy life, to live life to the full is not a given. Rather it is something that is attained by effort, by discipline and in giving. Giving results in satisfaction. Taking simply satisfies the whim of the moment.

But in living there can be much sorrow, pain, distress and so it is within this reality that the question of life raises so many questions.

So as with death. A child dies of cancer, a baby dies at birth are just two examples where death has a sting. So it was that ever since the emergence of humans the question of death has exercised minds and has found answers in the way belief and practices have been interwoven into life itself. For example, the ancient Egyptians were par excellent in finding answers.

Why life? Why death? Answers abound but none can be proven to be the right one. One dies what happens? We don’t know!

However, the Christian faith has added the encouraging dimension of hope as we seek for answers. Perhaps it is Saint John writing some 2,000 years ago who best portrays the Christian Hope. His writings entitled “Revelation” was the last to be received into the canon of the New Testament and is a tour de force seeking answers to the question of life and death. He writes of Christ: “He that sat upon the throne said: behold I make all things new. Write for these words are true and faithful- it is done I am alpha and omegar Image: www.pixabay.com.au the beginning and the end”.

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Normal or Nothing Like It

Normal or Nothing Like It is the debut novel for award winning screenwriter and playwright, Wayne Tunks. Besides getting older, 40 can’t be all bad, can it? The novel comes out on July 1, 2021.

In these sixteen interwoven short stories, we meet a group of 40-year-olds learning to deal with the thing’s life throws at them while trying to juggle their jobs, family, and personal connections. And while finally learning to be their true selves, they’re also discovering whether they are normal or nothing like it.

Lockdown was the perfect time for Wayne to finally write the book he has been wanting to write for years.

For the past 21 years, Wayne has been writing work for the stage and television. He is a critically acclaimed playwright, with plays like, The Subtle Art of Flirting, We’ll Always Have Wagga, Silvertop Ash and The Girlie Show, playing all over Australia. His play, The Bridesmaid Must Die! just played its third season in Tasmania. Wayne has also been a storyliner for Australia’s longest running television drama, Neighbours.

In the past few years, Wayne has been taking the international film festival circuit by storm with his work. His web series, After Nightfall, has won major awards in New York, Seoul, New Jersey, Baltimore, Sydney, Utah and most recently, Wayne won “Best Writer” at the British Web Awards. His most recent short, Overcaterers Anonymous, has also been scooping awards around the world, with Wayne recently winning Best Script at the Lake View International Film Festival.

In 2021, Wayne returned to radio. He is the breakfast announcer on Penrith newest station, My88: The Home of the Eighties. He gets to talk about all the music he loves and interview his favourite singers of the eighties.

Normal or Nothing Like It is available for pre-order on paperback or e-book from all leading bookstores. More info can be found at www.tunks.com.au/book.

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Stay Out of Harm this Winter With the temperatures dropping, Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) is strongly urging the community to stay out of harm this Winter by being home fire safe.

There is a 10 per cent increase in the number of house fires during the cooler months with more fires in bedrooms and loungerooms due to heaters, electric blankets, and the like.

In 2020, FRNSW attended 3,740 residential house fires.

This year, it has already attended more than 1,270 residential house fires. Of these, seven have been preventable fatalities.

FRNSW Commissioner Paul Baxter said it was vitally important for people to have a working smoke alarm in their home and to test it regularly.

“Every year, approximately 20 people die in NSW from fires that could have been prevented,” he said.

“Each death is a tragic loss for families, friends and the wider community.

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FRNSW Commissioner Baxter said firefighters are committed to reducing the risk of home fires and to protecting the irreplaceable.

“However, the best way to stay out of harm this Winter is to take measures to prevent a fire from occurring in the first instance,” he said.

FRNSW remind the community to: • keep looking when cooking • don’t overload power boards • keep everything a metre from the heater • never use wheat bags to warm your bed • check electric blankets for frayed cords and other damage • don’t use outdoor heating and cooking equipment inside the home as it can be fatal • have a Home Escape Plan Most importantly if a fire does occur, get out, stay out and call Triple Zero (000).

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Jordan Springs Probus Club

Providing an exciting opportunity to meet with fellow retirees and join in stimulating activities, the Jordan Springs Probus Club services Jordan Springs, and surrounding suburbs. The club was formed in March 2018 and joins the fray with over 1,700 clubs with more than 125,000 members all over Australia and New Zealand.

With an exciting program of events, you will get to hear interesting guest speakers, attend monthly meetings, take part in a wide range of pursuits, travel locally or around the world, enjoy exclusive discounts through the Probus Member Benefits Scheme, have access to exclusive Probus Travel Insurance plans, develop new interests and stay active.

The club currently has a regular lunch at a local venue on the second Tuesday of each month, a monthly outing, and special events such as Christmas in July. An example of the outings for this year are a mystery train ride, Bowral Tulip Festival (via coach), Manly Corso (train and ferry), Postman’s Run on the Hawksbury River, Movie Group and Hunter Christmas Lights.

The Probus Club of Jordan Springs welcomes visitors and new members and meets at the Jordan Springs Community Hub on the 4th Tuesday of every month from 10:00am. For more information, contact Brian on 0402 699611 or via email at jordansprings@probusclubs.org. Visit our website at probussouthpacific.org/microsites/jordansprings BUSINESS DIRECTORY

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July is always a great month, not only is it the month I celebrate another year of memories and experiences I have gained along the way but it’s also a timely reminder that we’re ‘almost’ half way through Winter.

Although I do love the opportunity to recharge during Winter. Life seems to slow down a little, allowing us some time to soak up the warmth of the heater, devour our favourite home-made soups and catch up on Netflix (am I right?).

For the school parents out there, enjoy the school holidays, it won’t be long before they come to an end once and for all and you’ll be yearning for the ‘good old days’ to return.

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